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Pelosi backpedals, offers "real" reason for push-back on Columbia

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Posted by gorb 2008-04-11 04:14|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 I suspect that this game will play out much like all other games played before by Pelosi. All bluster and no meaningful action. If I was a democrat, I'd be tired of hearing Nancy posture and then get her ass whipped by reality. If it wasn't for the press covering for her, the democrats would have thrown her out long ago.

Posted by Woodrow Slusorong7967 2008-04-11 07:40|| 2008-04-11 07:40|| Front Page Top

#2 I think we're about one "free-trade agreement" away from a depression. Fairly soon there won't be anyone with a job left to buy their cheap imported crap.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-04-11 08:31|| 2008-04-11 08:31|| Front Page Top

#3 However Speaker Pelosi explained her move saying she thinks the bill would lose if it were brought to the floor immediately and it would send the ~~wrong~~ clear message to the world about the ~~U.S.~~ Union owned and operated Democratic Party position on trade.

Fixed it for you Ms. Speaker.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-04-11 09:44|| 2008-04-11 09:44|| Front Page Top

#4 Pelosi's so stupid it's a wonder she still remembers how to breathe.

Posted by Chief Running Gag">Chief Running Gag 2008-04-11 11:27|| 2008-04-11 11:27|| Front Page Top

#5 big jim, you do realize that we already have the same rules on Columbian imports that this treaty codifies, don't you?

There's a rolling temporary deal that's been going on for quite a while. This does not improve Columbia's position at all, except to make the deal permanent.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot, this treaty also makes it MUCH easier for the US to export to Columbia.

Facts are funny things, aren't they?

Posted by AlanC 2008-04-11 11:35|| 2008-04-11 11:35|| Front Page Top

#6 Are coke imports included in the trade figures?

Posted by ed 2008-04-11 11:38|| 2008-04-11 11:38|| Front Page Top

#7 What, another Pelosi surrender ?
Get off the floor Nancy, the money's for the beer.

Posted by wxjames 2008-04-11 12:51|| 2008-04-11 12:51|| Front Page Top

#8 Ask Hugo - he's helping the drug runners in Columbia from Venezuela. Has his own "free trade" thing going I bet.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-04-11 13:19|| 2008-04-11 13:19|| Front Page Top

#9 The only thing this bill does is eliminate the tarrifs on American goods going into Colombia. THe Unions say hop and Pelosi and a lot of other Democrats don't hesitate.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2008-04-11 18:08|| 2008-04-11 18:08|| Front Page Top

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